Frying Pan update...

Drat.

I may not do any more posts about the Frying Pan reopening until I have actually gone & had a beer & a bargeburger (medium rare, with a side order of sunset, please).

Frying Pan Reopens!

Another WOOHOO!

THE FRYING PAN'S REOPENING!!!!!!!

Closed September 11th, 2006. Incredible...

Thanks for the news, Jack!

Lyman, and good stuff in the Hudson River Park!

Here's the tug Lyman, northbound in the Buttermilk Channel around noon on Thursday, March 27th. She's towing a really weird-lookin' thing which I put up in the gallery of the day (link to the thing in a minute).

I was totally curious about this thing. I checked in with Tugster Will 'cause I tend to think of him as the go-to guy for identifying weird floating things. Well, he didn't know but he said if I could get him the name of the tug, that might help. Fortunately I took this nice picture - there she is, the Lyman.

And a minute later I took a picture of the thing.

BTW, I think it's pretty funny that I wrote that caption LESS THAN 24 hours before I heard this news! Came out yesterday morning, first saw it in a post from Nancy, the metropolitan coordinator for the Hudson River Watertrail Association, on NYCKayaker, was in the papers the same day.

And in other good news in the Hudson River Park - I was very happy to see that the barge that practically used to be my summer home (hey, we can't all afford the Hamptons) will FINALLY be reopening! Congrats to the Kreveys & all my old friends over there - won't be paddling there much since my boats are all in Canarsie, but you can bet I'll be stopping by to say hello & enjoy my favorite Lackawanna #3 combo - bargeburger and a cold beer, with a side order of sunset!

Barge News!

My last day paddling at the barge, Sept. 2006


The barge now.

OK, it's not exactly NEW news. I've been waaaaay out of the loop since I left Pier 63, got into major disagreements with the self-appointed leaders of the sea kayak community there, and got myself kicked off the mailing list where most of the barge news had gotten cornered (still upsets me when I think about it, what a miserable few months of losing the place I thought I had had - and I'm not just talking about my storage space or water access) - but I JUST stumbled across this article, which gives a really good update.

Glad to see that there's hope for the barge to at least open for a place for people to go. Won't be quite the same, but better than the bureaucratic limbo of this year.

The Barge Has Moved!

Word just in from Nancy, the Hudson River Watertrail Association's Metropolitan Coordinator (who I must mention has been attending all these meetings for years due to her HRWA role - the rest of us tend to go when things get interesting, then lose track of 'em when things quiet down)- the barge has moved, everything went well, and John Krevey (the owner) is feeling good about the new location!

Thanks, Nancy, for keeping us up to date & for patiently & quietly being there representing paddlers' interests all along. Thanks, HRWA, for recognizing the need to have someone doing what Nancy's been doing down here even when things aren't so exciting.

Now looking again at the email, I see she said something about hoping people could post & share her pictures...I'd be delighted!

Photos by Nancy Brous:
a few views of the barge at the new location...